Making religion legalistic and the law religious: Australia’s Marriage Act 1961
Seminar
Australia’s Marriage Act has had a role in the lives of many, if not most, Australians since its enactment in 1961. But how much is really known about its genesis? The passage of the Marriage Act marked the culmination of a slow and hesitant process by which Australia’s national government assumed…
Environmental Exchanges Seminar - Rohan Howitt
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
Paving the yellowcake road: Land rights, conservation, and the politics of uranium in Australia, 1972–1984
Seminar
The extraction, exportation, and use of uranium is highly contentious. Since the early 1970s, Australians have been divided on these issues. Some consider uranium as symbolic of national development, growth, wealth, prestige, and geopolitical power. Others maintain its exploitation is the product…
History is Calling: Historians, the Constitution and the Voice
Symposium
Join us as we bring together leading historians and thinkers from across the University to shed light on the paths that have led to the upcoming referendum on a constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament. From the insights of deep history to the Uluru Statement from the…
Raining on Winchester Races: Jane Austen’s Climates
Seminar
Romantic-period literature played a pivotal role in the formation of contemporary markets for land through its celebration of the natural environment and water views. Reacting to the enclosure movement and mass urbanisation in England, Romantic literature rhetorically commodified “wild” and “…
Environmental Exchanges Seminar - Devika Shankar
Seminar
This semester, the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series will include four fantastic papers from a diverse group of historians on the theme 'extraction'. All seminars will be held both in person, and online (Zoom links will be provided via Eventbrite closer to…
Alison Bashford: Writing a Family History of Evolution
Workshop
An Intimate History of Evolution (Allen Lane, 2022) is a history of evolutionary ideas told through one family, the Huxleys. It is, at core, a double biography of Thomas Henry Huxley, Darwin’s nineteenth century “bulldog” and his grandson, Julian Huxley. I will discuss how I consider them “one very…